Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stengel's critique neatly encapsulates a view that has remained unchanged since Voltaire dismissed North America as "a few arpents of snow." Edmund Wilson gamely attempted to make his neighbors fascinating in a historical survey named for the country's national anthem, O Canada (1965). Pauline Johnson, Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan: above the St. Lawrence Seaway these are names from a literary pantheon. Below it, they are authors out of print...
...this has done nothing to discourage Novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now). His 14th book, aptly subtitled My Canadian Album, is a mordant, witty brief for the defense of his homeland. As evidence, the Montreal native offers a series of diverse impressions of Canada's past imperfect and present tense. He lunches with Pierre Trudeau, and remembers an earlier Prime Minister, the gnomic William Lyon Mackenzie King, who "nightly for 22 years sat by his crystal ball, beneath an illuminated portrait of his mum, and rapped with her spirit, seeking guidance...
...Whatever its problems, wonderful, demented Yellowknife has more spirit than any other town I know of in Canada. Take the referendum, for instance, called some years back to determine whether or not the town wanted home mail delivery. Yellowknifers voted a resounding 'No,' even though winter temperatures can plunge to 40 below zero, if only because during the long dark months many of them get to meet each other only when they pick up their mail at the post office. And then, a miner, stopped outside the post office by an inquiring photographer from the Yellowknifer and asked...
...group of Indians in Canada provided financial backing, and Walt Disney Productions is distributing the movie...
There has been widespread endorsement of "no-first-use", "non-use" and the analogous concept of nuclear free zones, most particularly by the non-nuclear nations. India's Indira Gandhi and Canada's Pierre Trudcau have made impassioned pleas for declarations of restraint by the nuclear powers. Pope John Paul II has echoed these sentiments...